United States Fifth Circuit

Plaintiff's damages claims for inconvenience and loss of a full day of "refreshing, memorable vacation" are merely an attempted re-characterization of mental anguish damages, which are not recoverable under the Warsaw Convention.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2004
• Published 01/14/2004

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, EMILIO M. GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George Kevin Buchanan,Buchanan & Burke, Howard Marc Spector (argued), Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., James W. Erwin, Thompson Coburn, St. Louis, MO, for Air Transport Ass'n of America Inc., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine A. Staton, Mark Raymond Steiner, David T. Moran (argued), Jackson Walker, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.